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Back in January, Skype announced it was testing end-to-end encrypted chat conversations, secured using Signal Protocol by Open Whisper Systems. Now, the feature is available for all users on Skype iOS, Android, Linux, Mac, and Windows Desktop.
There's a bit of a limitation, however: users can only participate in one private conversation per device at a time. The private conversation can be switched to another device, but anything sent and received will be tied to whatever device is currently being used.
Source: The Verge
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(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 21 2018, @11:36PM (6 children)
(Score: 5, Insightful) by edIII on Tuesday August 21 2018, @11:51PM (2 children)
Seems like he is throwing shade on Microsoft, who wholly deserves it. Once in bed with the NSA, always in bed with the NSA.
I would find it absolutely incredible if this was a genuine attempt at providing real end-to-end encryption. Something is compromised. It will be innocuous, and thus deniable, but somehow bork the implementation sufficiently as to allow the government access.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @02:17PM (1 child)
where did this 'throwing shade' term come from?
it seems to be hip and cool to disparage someone disparaging someone by using that phrase. i have noticed an uptick in its use in mainstream news sites, which means it is either common now, or will soon be abandoned by the cool kids that made it up because its not cool if everyone uses it.
assuming they didnt copy it from something else, which is what i would like to know
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @05:17PM
It's a phrase from the African-American vernacular (ebonics). Similar meaning and usage to "throwing salt". There may be a biblical origin, but I'm not sure. "Selling wolf tickets" is my favorite ebonic phrase (same as "crying wolf").
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday August 21 2018, @11:53PM
It's Microsoft. It's to be expected.
Skype claimed to have end-to-end encryption in the past, although it was probably broken [blackhat.com] anyway.
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(Score: 2) by PocketSizeSUn on Tuesday August 21 2018, @11:55PM
Perhaps .. but skype is the only preferred by microserfs and mircroserf wannabees.... ya know the colon of tech.
Also every other platform of note rolled out (and/or emphasized) basic encryption years ago ..
So yeah ... crickets.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Wednesday August 22 2018, @06:47AM
I agree with edIII, I think the comment is directed at Microsoft and the handful of people who still trust Skype.